Logroño, (EFE).- The man tried as the alleged perpetrator of the murder of Javier Ovejas, who disappeared in July 2021 in Entrena (La Rioja) and whose body has not been found, has assured this Monday: “I have it more than clear, its alive. He has not appeared because he is alive, where the coins are, he is ”.
The Provincial Court of La Rioja has held the first session of the trial with a people’s court, which will last until June 27, which began with the statement of the defendant, Óscar PR, after the provisional reports of the parties.
The Prosecutor’s Office requests a sentence of 22 years in prison for a crime of murder with treachery and another year for possession of weapons and compensation of 300,000 euros for the family and his sentimental partner from Ovejas, who was 31 years old when he disappeared.
The private accusations brought by the father and the couple of Ovejas request sentences of 25 and 3 years for the same crimes and 100,000 euros of civil liability; and the defense requests his free acquittal.
During his statement, the defendant recounted that, on the night of July 29, 2021, he called Ovejas to come to his house and return 100 euros that he owed him, but he did not even go in, he left and left his car parked at the door because he told him that it had broken down.
That night, he added, Ovejas’s girlfriend visited him several times, but he told her that he knew nothing about him, then he went to Logroño with an acquaintance because he had his car there and needed to repair it.
The next day, he returned to Logroño again with a friend to see if he could start his vehicle, and then they called him to make a statement at the Civil Guard headquarters and days later the agents inspected his home and the surrounding orchard.
He has specified that an acquaintance of Ovejas from Puente la Reina (Navarra) showed him some gold coins and some collector’s notes that had previously been stolen from him (the defendant) and that Ovejas and his girlfriend had given him in exchange for marijuana.
Where is the corpse?
The defendant has assured that he did not have 22-caliber weapons at home and has stressed that “everything is a setup that they have done and it is working out very well for them”, because he maintains that someone put the casings and drops of blood in the patio of his house.
He has also said that he only had a half-hour interval to commit the crime and it is “completely impossible to kill a person and dispose of the body.”
“Where is the body?” the prosecutor asked him at the end of his statement, reminding him that the disappearance of the young woman from Seville, Marta del Castillo, modified the Penal Code and increased the penalties in cases in which the murderers do not report the crime. place where they hid the bodies of their victims.
“You can answer it to me: Why haven’t they looked for it in life? Where the coins are, he is also himself, ”he replied.
“They told me that they had seen him in Calahorra, after that if he was abroad, there were many with whom he was in the south, from Jaén or Málaga,” he insisted.
There is no right this suffering
In the trial, the couple from Ovejas also testified from five months before, who explained that she was very alarmed when her boyfriend was late in returning, so she went to the defendant’s house to see if he was there and he “came down sweating in his underpants ” and told him that he had already left because his car had broken down.
When she saw her car parked there with her dog tied to the rear seats with a rope, she called the Civil Guard, because she was convinced that her boyfriend would never have left the animal like that.
Very moved, she recalled that the following days she “went crazy” calling acquaintances and friends, until one told her that the defendant’s neighbor heard cries for help and two shots the night Ovejas disappeared.
“I kept calling the Civil Guard the following days. They only asked me to let them work and not get in the way, until they arrested him (the defendant) after 6 days. There is no right what I have gone through and that suffering is not taken away from me by anyone ”, he sobbed.
Regarding the possibility that Ovejas is still alive, he stressed that “for what reason would he set up all this” if they were happy, he has denied that they stole the coins and has said that his “only sin” was associating with the defendant.